First generation iPhone user. Loved it. Bought the 3G and became a victim of the 10+ dropped calls per day club. Went through the motions with the patches and still dealt with spotty 3G service in Portland so I switched back to a Blackberry 8830.
This is a great device but I have definitely missed the applications available for my 3G iPhone.
Here comes the Blackberry App Store. It is currently useless. The first application I tried to use which seemed somewhat interesting required that I navigate through the ridiculously painful blackberry browser in order to register an account with their service. No thanks.
The reviews of the most downloaded applications alone are indicative of a weak service. Add to that in order to purchase an application, RIM has integrated the store with Paypal.
RIM is risking losing that enterprise edge with this store — integrating it with a consumer level purchasing platform like Paypal shows the Blackberry users that RIM was either not sophisticated enough, or too impatient to implement a more streamlined purchasing platform.
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A brief history…
First generation iPhone user. Loved it. Bought the 3G and became a victim of the 10+ dropped calls per day club. Went through the motions with the patches and still dealt with spotty 3G service in Portland so I switched back to a Blackberry 8830.
This is a great device but I have definitely missed the applications available for my 3G iPhone.
Here comes the Blackberry App Store. It is currently useless. The first application I tried to use which seemed somewhat interesting required that I navigate through the ridiculously painful blackberry browser in order to register an account with their service. No thanks.
The reviews of the most downloaded applications alone are indicative of a weak service. Add to that in order to purchase an application, RIM has integrated the store with Paypal.
RIM is risking losing that enterprise edge with this store — integrating it with a consumer level purchasing platform like Paypal shows the Blackberry users that RIM was either not sophisticated enough, or too impatient to implement a more streamlined purchasing platform.
This entry was posted on May 24, 2009, 9:09 pm and is filed under Comments. You can follow any responses to this entry through RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.